Hopes Mrs. Stowell will soon come to
town for another visit. School will start soon, and she will have to leave her dissecting
laboratory and father's office, where she is in
charge. Yesterday father thwarted an attempted
scam. Carrie Miner gone to college. A nearby
married couple not happy. Another couple as romantic as characters in a Ouida novel.
Wm. Cather
[Stout
#1]

Won Latin prize at end of school year. Grades of 90 in rhetoric, 95 in Latin, and 100s in
physics, astronomy, and ancient history. Teacher wrote a message in report card praising her
literary interests. Has fixed up a room at father's office as a library. Is reading the Latin Bible, astronomy, geology, history, Homer, Milton, Swinburne, Ouida, and George Sand. Sister Jessie in school musicale yesterday. Mother, Mrs. Wiener, Mrs.
Garber, and husbands [Charles F. Cather, Charles F.
Wiener, and Silas Garber] had a
picnic. Longs to go to Europe. Mary Miner
doing well at piano. P.S.: As usual, Cather house is a gathering place for young people to flirt.
William Cather, Jr.
[Stout
#2]

Has been studying Greek and reading Bulwer-Lytton and Dickens. Brothers
Roscoe and Douglass
competed in the Firemen's State Tournament. Is serving as a reporter for the
Republican, edited by Dr. McKeeby. Has been to
picnics in the Garbers'
grove. Local couple flirting ridiculously. Jessie, Roscoe, and Douglass singing in cantata. Is going to baseball game in
Superior, Nebraska, with Mary and Hugh
Miner. Is going to dance at platform in the Garbers' grove tonight.
Willa Cather
[Stout
#3]

Why did Mariel buy the disreputable Sappho? Kit and
Mr. Myres flirting. Is feeling lonely but takes refuge
in French history, George Eliot, and long horseback
rides. Was at Mrs. Garber's on Sunday.
Kit loaned her copy of Sappho to a church woman—how depraved! Is doing vivisection
on frogs. Mariel could set up lab at newspaper
office.
Willa Cather
[Stout
#4]

[Titled "After-Glow."
Six quatrains describing an intensely emotional experience in a theater setting. Accompanying
letter referred to in #0013 is not in the file.]
[Stout
#9]

Letter ID: 0010

Addressee: Pound, Louise

Date: 1892-06-15

Repository: Duke University, Durham, N.C.

To Louise Pound,
n.d.
[June 15, 1892, according to note signed by Olivia Pound]
from Lincoln
; Duke

Is writing after midnight, having left her for the last time before summer vacation. Felt
overcome by the sight of Louise in her new dress. After much thought, chose the Rubáiyát
[of Omar
Khayyám, in popular translation by Edward FitzGerald] as a
going-away gift. Reason she was not very sociable was prospect of parting. Wanted to make the
traditional gesture of goodbye but feared Louise might
be revolted. Not fair that friendships between women are regarded as not natural. Letter may be
even more foolish than one left unsent in March.
William
[Stout
#10]